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Jez Randell

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Many, many records bought from Fat Bob although I think I’d left town by the time it’d moved. Remember buying BowWowWow’s C30 C60 with free t-shirt!

That was before the boycott when he didn’t want to release an ep with us!!

Lindsay Wight

Used to buy George Thorogood albums there.

Ian Kelland

Yeah! Great little record shop tucked away by the multi storey carpark. I bought loads of LPs there including DOORS ABSOLUTELY LIVE which some cockney rascist thug stole off me when I was in London at drama school.


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Name: Marie Shaw
Comment: I was their first Saturday girl in the Corby store in 1979, ten years plus... It was a great job... the music industry might have changed but I still love music and gigs.

PS: the first carrier bags were Orange and black with the Discovery ship.

Name: Steve.
Comment: Originally the Market Harborough shop was on Coventry Road back in the 1970s. Corby opened next and Rugby opened on 1 November 1983. Coincidently the space shuttle bag cover was designed by me. But it was delayed issuing for a year due to the space shuttle tragedy. The original Discovery sailing ship design was hurriedly reprinted in the meantime. I worked in all of those three shops at various times.
(October27, 2015)

Steve
11 Jul 2023 at 12:02
Spent many happy hours in there [Leamington Spa branch] in my late teens.
Dave Harwood
06 Oct 2023 at 02:24
I found an advert in the ‘Stratford-upon-Avon Herald’ dated 22nd August 1986:
“DISCOVERY RECORDS, BELL COURT SHOPPING CENTRE, STRATFORD-UPON-AVON. Also at Solihull and Leamington Spa.”
Dave Harwood
23 Jan 2024 at 03:15
I found this classified advert in the 'Market Harborough Advertiser' dated 3rd May 1984:
“DISCOVERY RECORDS require YOUNG PERSON as FULL-TIME SALES ASSISTANT in the Market Harborough branch. Must be interested in music. Apply in writing giving brief details of experience etc, to: DISCOVERY, 3 MARKET SQUARE, CORBY.”
… and this advert in the 19th April 1990 edition:
“DISCOVERY RECORDS 14 ADAM & EVE STREET, MARKET HARBOROUGH, Telephone: 64700. FOR ALL YOUR RECORDS - TAPES - CD'S - VIDEOS.”

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Regent Street CV32 Leamington Spa / Warwickshire
3 Market Square Corby / Northamptonshire
14 Adam & Eve Street LE16 7LT Market Harborough / Leicestershire
Bell Court Shopping Centre, Rother Street CV37 6JP Stratford on Avon / Warwickshire
Merry Hill, Brierley Hill DY5 Dudley / West Midlands
Drury Lane B91 Solihull / West Midlands
11 Market Mall, Rugby Centre CV21 2JR Rugby / Warwickshire
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